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Penrod by booth tarkington6/21/2023 ![]() The boys squabble about his name, the pup and Penrod's dog Duke rampage through Penrod's house, and as punishment Penrod's parents force him to wear a smelly asafetida bag. Penrod Jashber begins when Penrod's best friend Sam Williams acquires a new pup. Otherwise it is similar: it is written in the same style and takes place at the same time. Penrod Jashber is more novelistic in form than the preceding books rather than each chapter standing as a separate story, the bulk of this book has one story arc, of Penrod's pretending to be detective George B. The three novels were published together as one volume, Penrod: His Complete Story, in 1931. ![]() ![]() Initially serialized in Cosmopolitan and published in 1929, it was preceded by Penrod in 1914 and by Penrod and Sam in 1916. Penrod Jashber is the third novel in a series by Booth Tarkington about the adventures of Penrod Schofield, an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the Midwest. ![]()
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